[flame]Why would you want to use something as painfull as SLES if you can use better open source distro's?[/flame]

Most people I know use SLES a) with proprietary software or b) because they have to (company policy) and in that case they usually don't use things like YAST and compile there own software. (which is rather strange, if you give money to get an "enterprise linux", you probably want to use their -very limited list- of supported packages. Otherwise you could as well use another distro...)